Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served. [Utne]According to its present CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down."

The company lists as government clients "the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S Air force, and the Department of Justice," in projects that "often require state-of-the-art security solutions for classified or high-risk government sites."

Stratesec (Securacom) differs from other security companies which separate the function of consultant from that of service provider. The company defines itself as a "single-source" provider of "end-to-end" security services, including everything from diagnosis of existing systems to hiring subcontractors to installing video and electronic equipment. It also provides armored vehicles and security guards.

The Dulles Internation contract is another matter. Dulles is regarded as "absolutely a sensitive airport," according to security consultant Wayne Black, head of a Florida-based security firm, due to its location, size, and the number of international carriers it serves.

Black has not heard of Stratesec, but responds that for one company to handle security for both airports and airlines is somewhat unusual. It is also delicate for a security firm serving international facilities to be so interlinked with a foreign-owned company: "Somebody knew somebody," he suggested, or the contract would have been more closely scrutinized.

As Black points out, "when you [a company] have a security contract, you know the inner workings of everything." And if another company is linked with the security company, then "What's on your computer is on their computer." [American Reporter]

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said yesterday [September 11]. Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday [September 6], bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed. [NY Newsday]

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

On the weekend of 9/8, 9/9 there was a 'power down' condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower. This power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36 hrs from floor 50 up... "Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower." [WingTV]

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

"Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport." And not to be outdone by this fact, we also learn that "from 1999 to January of 2002 (Marvin and George W.'s cousin) Wirt Walker III was the company's CEO."

That this stunning, remarkable fact was not front-page news in every newspaper in the country is a mystery.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

The day after Bush took office in 2001 Marvin was handed a $50 million plus contract to handle security of the Twin Towers and Dulles Airport. He had absolutely no background to indicate he could handle such a contract, or the job it entailed, but this is how all the Bushes got rich, with government contracts given to them by other Bush family members. Marvin was in charge of security on 9/11 at both the WTC and Dulles.

You can look it up on line, Google Marvin bush and you will find out a lot about the "other Bush brother" that absolutely no one in the press will ever discuss or talk to the Bush family about, or ask the hard questions of George W. like, "what qualifications did your brother have that gave you the right to award such a huge contract toprovide security at the WTC and Dulles airport to him?"

Have you ever heard the press ask this tough question of W? I didn't. In fact, the press NEVER discusses Marvin, the other brother, or Neil, the thief brother.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

this was on glp a couple years ago but it's good to bring it up every now and then. you may want to look at the "re-insurance" angle of the bush family workings as well as bush's uncle and his dealings and of course the selling of all. the evening this was all on glp it just happened that glp went down and it's not been brought back as far as i can remember. there is also, or at least used to be, a youtube thing on this angle of 9/11. good hunting.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

I also cannot believe the so-called 9/11 panel didn't want to trace the short-selling that went on the week before 9/11.

People bet their money that those airlines would take a hit! How did they know?

This was never investigated.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 648447

[link to www.hereinreality.com] there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

They don't talk about it on TV anymore, but someone tried to make money with unusual stock trades right before the terrorist attacks of September 11. Who knew to bet that United Airlines would lose money?

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

old news

Really?

I've never ever seen this on Fox!

How could it be old news?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 689583

Actually I didn't know it either, until just now.

Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].STOCK UP NOW. You should have at least 6 months worth of basics for every member of your household. Stay away from crowds when trouble starts, do not forget water storage, tobacco is worth more than gold or silver, and be kind to hungry children.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

Why did Jeb Bush and federal agents seize records from Huffman Aviation - Florida flight school of Mohammed Atta, and other 9/11 hijackers - in the middle of the night following the attacks of September 11th and load them onto a C-130? And why did Jeb Bush know, hours after the attack, where to look?

"Whatever secrets Dekkers may possess about the terrorists, records from his flight school were deemed sensitive enough to have merited being escorted back to Washington by Florida Governor Jeb Bush aboard a C-130 cargo plane, which left Sarasota less than 24 hours after the September 11 attack." [link to www.scoop.co.nz] [link to www.democraticunderground.com]

Hopsicker: That’s correct. I sat down with two Southern lawmen, a current sheriff and his immediate predecessor. These two guys looked me dead in the eye and said that, based on what they have seen with a lot of CIA-connected covert operations in the area, the CIA was somehow involved in, if not responsible for, the World Trade Center attacks. You might expect some wild-eyed leftist radical to say that. But these are two Southern sheriffs. They have spent years watching CIA activities that they could not interfere with. [link to www.libertyforum.org]

And what are the linkages between the flight school and its Republican owner, Wally Hilliard, to US covert agencies and the covert drug trade?

"A Learjet belonging to the true owner of the Venice flight school that trained both terrorist pilots who flew into the World Trade Center was seized with more than 30 pounds of heroin onboard by Federal Agents in July of 2000 at the Orlando Executive Airport." [link to www.scoop.co.nz]

What's the largely unexplored connection between Atta, the CIA, al Qaeda and drugs?

From Sander Hicks:

...what makes Ben-Veniste such an intriguing player on the 9/11 Commission (The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) is his experience with rogue drug-running CIA operatives. Ben-Veniste defended Barry Seal, the notorious smuggler who flew C-123 military cargo planes filled with cocaine into Mena, Arkansas on behalf of the contras.

Al Qaeda's lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, was allegedly partying with CIA-connected pilots while he got his flight training in fall/winter 2000 at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Fla., where two of the other 9/11 hijacker pilots trained. Atta wasn't acting much like a holy martyr: He wore jeans and sneakers, played video games, bought himself a red Pontiac and was said to be a hedonist. The Press posed the question to Ben-Veniste: If Atta belonged to the fundamentalist Muslim group, why was he snorting cocaine and frequenting strip bars?

FBI agents harassed and intimidated witnesses to the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy’s activities in Florida, issuing warnings to avoid talking with reporters, say current and former residents in Venice, Florida. At least one eyewitness, who knew Mohamed Atta because he lived next door for a time, received regular visits for over six months after the attack from FBI agents eager to ensure she continued to remain silent. Several said they felt unfairly singled out because what they saw and heard is at considerable variance with the official story of the terrorist cadre’s time in Florida.

An American girl named Amanda Keller, for example, briefly lived with Mohamed Atta in Venice, according to both local news reports and numerous eyewitnesses.

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

Later that day, the Barclay-Vesey’s eastside was crushed by the collapse of the neighboring 47-story Seven WorldTrade Center.

According to press reports, as much as 42,000 gallons of diesel fuel were stored in the Trade Center structure, creating a fire so intense it raged for seven hours before the building’s collapse.(page 8) nice heritage piece on what was physically lost on 9/11 [link to www.heritagepreservation.org]

O, Brother! Where Art Thou?Like Hugh Rodham, the Bush Bros. Have Capitalized on Family Ties

Unless you've been reading the Houston Chronicle society page, it's unlikely you've seen any current news about Neil Bush. The third Bush sibling has been almost as invisible as his apolitical brother Marvin, a venture capitalist living in northern Virginia, and his sister Dorothy "Doro" Koch, the youngest of the five Bush siblings, who quietly raises funds for charities in a Maryland suburb near Washington. While Jeb was governor of Florida and George W. was twice elected governor of Texas, Neil was either part of the late Maxine Mesinger's "crème de la crème crowd" at a Houston social event, or a stale S&L footnote: "the director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan when it crashed in 1988 at a cost of $1 billion to taxpayers." [link to www.austinchronicle.com]

Re: Marvin BUSH was head of the Twin Towers Security on 9/11. Did you know the towers were shut down a week before 9/11?

speaking of financial transactions in the days and hours before 9/11 could make one think there were knowns of specific aspects of the attack on 9/11. insider trading.

Examination of options trading in the 10 days prior to the attack reveals a striking pattern. Large volumes of put options were purchased for companies that would be crippled by the attack, such as American Airlines and United Airlines, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Morgan Stanley. [link to 911research.wtc7.net]

(CBS) Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market.

An extraordinary number of trades were betting that American Airlines stock price would fall.

The trades are called "puts" and they involved at least 450,000 shares of American. But what raised the red flag is more than 80 percent of the orders were "puts", far outnumbering "call" options, those betting the stock would rise. [link to www.cbsnews.com]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether shares of Bank of America Corp., American Express Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and 35 other companies were the subject of insider trading before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. [link to 911research.wtc7.net]